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Musk's Starlink backtracks and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil

apnews.com Musk's Starlink backtracks and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil

Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink has backtracked and announced it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X.

Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ order despite him having frozen the company’s assets. Previously, it informally told the telecommunications regulator that it would not comply until de Moraes reversed course.

“Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,” the company statement said. “We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre’s recent order violate the Brazilian constitution.”

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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

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Pussy. Go on, Elon. Make your companies play chicken with a national government. I'm sure every other national government out there will definitely back you up, because making a company above the law (without paying the requisite bribes) is DEFINITELY something that national governments want to normalize!

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Typical. Send the lawyers first to intimidate. Then get told you have no case. Then walk back tail between legs.

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Elon Musk is picking fights with everyone these days.

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Glad he got bitch-slapped on this one.

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That's a bummer. I was hoping EU countries would be inspired by Brazil to actually enforce some of their laws and ban Twitter as well.

Edit: as vxx pointed out, there is a positive way to interpret this outcome, and I was probably being needlessly pessimistic.

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They can think it violates the Brazilian constitution all they like, my understanding is that the supreme court already weighed in on the issue and that's the only opinion that matters in most countries.

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How long until Elon throws a fit and fires people at Starlink until they ignore judge's orders?

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Dude finally found an immovable object outside of US.

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Loser losing again…

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Am I the only one surprised by this? The rich bitch didn't get away with something?

Why? Like, why for real, not just "this is why this is happening based on the law, bla bla bla". The law doesn't apply to this prick.

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#L

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Divorce :(

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Their calculations for sucking up and paying Musk's bills outweighed the costs of not doing business.

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Sorry, I'm out of the loop. Why did Brazil ban Twitter in the first place?

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Moraes is brat.

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The one time I’ll side with musk: it’s in the fucking sky! You can’t block it! It’s not anyone’s jurisdiction.

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